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...chairman of Cornell's English department, DeVane has been at Yale ever since he arrived as an undergraduate from South Carolina. He graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1920, was appointed assistant professor when he received his Ph.D. in 1926, and returned from Cornell in 1938 as Emily Sanford professor of English literature as well as dean of Yale College. A first-rate scholar of Browning and Tennyson, the new dean became equally expert on faculty and curriculum, quietly carved out the reports and studies that have served as the basis for undergraduate education at Yale-and many another college...
Being dean has its rewards, but universities also need presidents. Last week: > Kenneth Sanford Pitzer, 48, was inaugurated as Rice University's third president at a three-day academic festival marking Rice's soth year and attended by 27 famed scholars, ranging from Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi through Anthropologist Margaret Mead to Hiscorian Arnold Toynbee. Pitzer had been dean of chemistry at the University of California's Berkeley campus, and before that director of research...
Holding the Yanks to an average of just 2.66 runs per game, Jack Sanford and company pitched well enough to justify a senior circuit victory under almost any other set of circumstances. In fact, Giant hurlers performed so well that their mates actually outscored New York overall, 21 runs...
...Willie Mays in his massive arms, hoisted him on a table and poured champagne in his ear. Then the bone-weary Giants flew off to San Francisco to play the cool, efficient Yankees in the World Series-and baseball was back to Dullsville. Yankee Whitey Ford and Giant Jack Sanford turned in masterful pitching performances, and after 18 cool, efficient innings, the series was even at one game apiece...
Subsequently CORE called a meeting with North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, who appointed a citizens' committee to study the situation. On the recommendation of the committee he asked that all public eating places in the state desegregate. Ten of 20 Howard Johnson's in the state are now desegregated; Saturday's demonstration was in protest of continued refusal by others to serve Negroes or to negotiate for desegregation...